Customer Reviews

18 Screamers From the 80's

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I bought this CD mainly because I wanted "Ah Leah", but didn't want to buy a whole Donnie Iris CD for it. The rest of the tracks seemed like OK picks.

Say what you will about my musical taste, but be warned that the sound quality on this disc is somewhere between AM and FM radio. I wonder if they just downloaded some random MP3s from dubious sources on the internet and made a CD with them. I can't believe anyone involved in putting this together got within 100 miles of the original master tapes. Listening to this actually made me long for a decent recording on cassette.

It looks like I'll be buying that Donnie Iris CD after all. Amazon can have this one back.

I bought this CD for one or two songs, which luckily have OK sound quality. The April Wine and Molly Hatchet offerings suffer from particularly bad audio. The only song I had a duplicate of to compare was 867-5309/Jenny and the quality on this CD was a notch below what I found on one of Rhino's compilations. But then again Rhino typically does an excellent job cleaning up these older masters. Track times below for those that care:

Album: 18 Screamers From The 80's

1 I Can't Drive 55 [4.14]
2 The Stroke [3.40]
3 Naughty, Naughty [3.42]
4 I Like to Rock [4.22]
5 Little Miss Dangerous [4.52]
6 Ah! Leah! [3.45]
7 Don't Let Him Go [3.48]
8 Urgent [4.31]
9 Keep Your Hands to Yourself [3.26]
10 Beatin' The Odds [3.20]
11 All Night Long [3.38]
12 867-5309(Jenny) [3.47]
13 The Warrior [3.53]
14 Fly Away [3.00]
15 Power [4.29]
16 Lay it on The Line [4.06]
17 We're Not Gonna Take It [3.41]
18 Yankee Rose [3.50]

This album has a great mix of songs from the 80's, all by the original artists - from some of the lesser well-known but catchy tunes like "Ah! Leah!" to anthems of excess like "I Can't Drive 55"

I found this collection to be very well put together. The only problem I had with it is that the recording quality of some of the songs was less than I would expect from a CD however if you could overlook that you need to have this one in your cd collection.

I feel that they could've cut Tommy Tutone's 867-5309/Jenny and Georgia Sattelites's Keep Your Hands to Yourself and include J. Geils Band's Come Back and Joe Perry Project's Let the Music do the Talking instead but it's a really good CD and I remember how hard I was trying to find Donnie Iris's hit Ah! Leah! and I finally found it on this CD and I felt lucky to hear Molly Hatchet's Beatin' the Odds, I would also replace Foreigner's Urgent and put Juke Box Hero or Dirty White Boy cause I cannot stand Urgent and I think it's Foreigner's most overrated song.

I really was Looking for 1 song Naughy naughty by john parr. Its out of print & very difficult to find, i would have purchased this CD solely for this song but there are 3 additional tracks I like as well. Including 867-5309 & I can't drive 55.

The contributions of Donny Iris and John Parr alone make this a keeper.

Since I got my c.d I have been playing it on the way to and from work everyday! What a great collection of music! To find an April Wine song, and Blackfoot's "fly away" is a treasure! Quite the collection of songs, my teenagers are swiping it from me, seems good music never goes out of style.
I highly recommend it to any 80's music buff, you won't be sorry!

A pretty decent collection of hard to find and not so hard to find rock tracks from the 80's. The sound quality on some of the tracks (April Wine, Joe Walsh, Georgia Satellites) leaves a lot to be desired but apart from that it's OK.

Triumph's Lay it on the Line and Donnie Iris' Ah! Leah! both qualify as screamers, but unless the people who compiled this collection meant "screamingly funny," I don't understand why they titled it thusly. Nevertheless, I'll buy it because where else am I gonna find those two songs without buying entire Triumph and Donnie Iris albums? Not that I'm averse to having Tommie Tutone or Billy Squier's The Stroke, the latter of which does somewhat qualify as a screamer. But most of the 18 songs in this collection are better described as snoozers. A better choice from Foreigner would have been Head Games, which is actually a 2fer (screamer, screamingly funny). A better choice from April Wine would have been Roller, which is a screamer and also probably their best song. A final point: I can't imagine how Krokus' Screaming in the Night didn't make it onto this collection, and if it had I'd be much happier with it.